[IAEP] [support-gang] Fixing activities documentation for the new UI

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Thanks Pablo.

We are tackling this in two stages:

  1. engaging with technical writers to solve our immediate,
time-critical need for documentation to match our OS release
  2. developing a longer-term strategy to better sync with community

We'll announce more details as they develop.

Sridhar


Sridhar Dhanapalan
Engineering Manager
One Laptop per Child Australia


On 22 January 2012 01:53, Pablo Flores <pflores2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Making a documentation sprint in April in Boston sounds good. However, it
> wouldn't solve most of OLPC-Australia problem, as they want to start
> training teachers for the new versions in March.
>
> I wonder if some people from Australia, New Zeland and other Pacific
> countries may be interested in doing a documentation sprint before that...
>
> Saludos,
> Pablo Flores
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> Now I always scheduled sprints/summits on civic/religious long weeks/wkds
>> in the past so the max peop could sneak out of their day jobs, wouldn't a
>> Passover Sprint "open to all" per the Jewish tradition "All who are hungry,
>> come and eat" just be perfect?
>>
>> In any case Nancie don't worry we won't make you cook or host...or will
>> we, hah ;)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/20/2012 7:15 PM, Nancie Severs wrote:
>>
>> Hi Adam, and all,
>> Just a heads up: This year Passover is April 6 (seder evening) and April 7
>> is the first day. Easter Sunday is April 8. That's not a good weekend Adam.
>> The weekend before or after look ok though.
>> Nancie:)
>>
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>> Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] Fixing activities documentation for the
>> new UI
>>
>> Two thoughts,
>>
>> If the get together was a week earlier, I could attend.
>>
>> For manipulating screen shots, the xophoto activity I did might be useful
>> (see http://georgejhunt.com/olpc/xophoto/xophoto.html). It's a little
>> clunky, and didn't make it out of the sugarlabs sandbox.
>>
>> The download is available at
>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4377.
>>
>> And early documentation is at http://xophoto.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Maybe, after being away from it for a year, I'll see ways to make xophoto
>> more user friendly, and useful for the new tablet.
>>
>> George
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> Clustering a book sprint around (and including) the wkd of Apr 7/8 when
>> several including myself, Christoph, Nancie S. etc should be in Boston,
>> might make a ton of sense?
>>
>> But others should speak up if they have better ideas!
>>
>> As I'm spending a lot of time in Haiti these days and lost track of the
>> rich world's schedules, but will happily join if Caryl/Christoph/Pablo/ALL
>> driving forward enthusiasm to make this real =)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/16/2012 6:44 AM, adam wrote:
>>
>> hi Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/16/2012 12:32 PM, Holt wrote:
>>
>> Caryl Bigenho, Christoph Derndorfer, I & others have been laying
>> groundwork since Oct/SF but as we all know this is Hell^h^h^h^hGod's
>> thankless work :)
>>
>>
>> Can we bring this together with a focused doc event? a 5 dayer to complete
>> the work and move it on to a new level?
>>
>> adam
>>
>>
>>
>> Everyone who can pitch in taking screenshots of critical/latest
>> Activities is an absolute hero, particularly for these Activities
>> included in Release 11.3.0?
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/11.3
>>
>> Update our manual-refresh's wiki here please if so, no matter how you
>> choose to help!
>>
>> http://j.mp/xomanual
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2011/Help_Activity_Refresh
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/16/2012 6:10 AM, adam wrote:
>>
>> hi
>>
>> I would like to propose a doc summit for sugar/olpc. Fm can facilitate
>> a series of sprints to get everything up to date. However we would
>> need to work together to raise the funds to make it happen. I am happy
>> to put work into this from our side (FM) - who can take the lead from
>> Sugars side?
>>
>> adam
>>
>> On 01/15/2012 03:13 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>>
>> On 14 January 2012 07:02, Walter Bender<walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Pablo Flores<pflores2 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday we discussed with Sridhar Dhanapalan and other
>> OLPC-Australia team
>> people the impact of updating the Sugar version on their
>> deployment. One of
>> the unforeseen impacts comes to the documentation they have made for
>> training their teachers, as it has plenty of screenshots and videos
>> that got
>> outdated because of all the UI changes made recently. This will
>> bring an
>> important amount of work for updating...
>>
>> One of the things that could be very helpful for them would be
>> having the
>> floss manuals updated. I took a look at the manuals of "classic"
>> activities
>> and they weren't updated. It would be great if some of the
>> contributors who
>> worked on those manuals could lend a hand for having them updated.
>>
>> Looking further, I think there should be some way for keeping the
>> activities
>> documentation updated, or at least having a single place to see for
>> each
>> activity how much updated its documentation is. Looking for ideas
>> for having
>> this done.
>>
>> Would it make sense including documentation updating in the
>> upstreaming
>> process somehow?
>>
>>
>> Perhaps a coincidence? I was corresponding with Adam this morning
>> about the possibility of organizing a sprint to update the Sugar
>> manuals. I was going to put out a call for a champion on the Sugar
>> side to help organize it. Any takers?
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>
>> The discussion with Pablo was on the same topic, so not just a
>> coincidence.
>>
>> Our OS (based on Dextrose 3) is mostly Sugar 0.94 as included in OLPC
>> OS 11.3.1. We've made some changes, but nothing too drastic. Updated
>> documentation on Sugar 0.94 and its activities would take us most of
>> the way there.
>>
>> Sridhar
>>
>>
>> Sridhar Dhanapalan
>> Engineering Manager
>> One Laptop per Child Australia
>>
>>
>>
>>
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